Bionicle Akida Creature of Water Building Kit (120 Piece)

An incredibly successful blend of CCBS with the classic technic system. A unique build that we haven't seen the likes of since 2001, this set is probably the most innovative set of the year. While not the most incredibly functional or great in terms of playability, when placed on the stand Akida has a nice range of motion and a unique look that is very eye catching when put on display.

Building skills - many pieces to put together and change up; creative thinking - developing new hybrids, backgrounds of characters and fantasy play. 7 y/o grandson got a bunch of these for his b-day after he played with them at LegoFest last year. Thought they would be too many pieces but he's put together many intricate Lego sets in the past year. He loves them!!!! He can change the pieces around and make all kinds of variations of creatures. Got him a book to introduce him to the backgrounds of the characters which enhanced his playing pleasure even more.

Akida is interesting cause unlike some of the other creatures, it's based on a real animal rather than a mythical creature. In Akida's case: A shark. A neat thing about this figure is that, it comes with a little stand that you can place the figure on, and make it look like it's swimming, though it's not a tight connection. Also cool is that Akida is the only creature that has a ranged weapon, two in fact. Akida comes with two stud shooters that fire by turning the little propellers on each of it's fins. Like the others, Akida also comes with a Shadow Trap. This one has long black horns used for it's legs. But from the looks of it and how they are shaped, they could actually be tentacles, giving it the visage of an octopus. So that's rather neat. The combine form with Gali is nice looking, with the best part being that it gives Gali Akida's stud shooters. Making her one of the three Toa to have a ranged weapon. Though Akida's combine form with Gali suffers from one minor thing, the face is painted silver. Because of that, it doesn't blend in all that well when Gali has her golden mask one, unlike Tahu and Kopaka's Unite forms. I also like to take the opportunity to criticizes the fact that all of the creatures share the same head design. I understand why they did is, as the design is made to fit over all the Toa's heads in the unite forms, but there still could have been some verity in the head sculpts. Akida is a really nice set. If you have Gali, I definitely recommend getting this figure for the untie form.

Sent as a gift to my nephew for his birthday. It arrived 16 days later. Nephew loves it, great toy. Just wished it had arrived 2 days like the shipping said.

Excellent quality as always from Lego and my 5 year old can assemble it almost unassisted, so perfect for him. He watches the TV version of Bionicle, so he loves that he can build his favourite characters.

have a son age 14 that still loves to build and collect/play with the bionicles. We are happy that they brought back bionicles as opposed to hero factory. quick and easy to build, long lasting play time

Ordered as a gift for our 11 year old grandson who loves Bionicles. He was so happy to receive it and immediately put it together, telling us it was one of his favorite Bionicles.

My Grandson loved it

My son loved this!